linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf kmem: Fix memory leak in compact_gfp

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:19:51 +0800
From:   Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@...wei.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
CC:     <peterz@...radead.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
        <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <hushiyuan@...wei.com>, <linfeilong@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf kmem: Fix memory leak in compact_gfp_flags()



On 2019/10/16 22:06, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 09:26:50PM +0800, Yunfeng Ye escreveu:
>> The memory @orig_flags is allocated by strdup(), it is freed on the
>> normal path, but leak to free on the error path.
>>
>> Fix this by adding free(orig_flags) on the error path.
>>
>> Fixes: 0e11115644b3 ("perf kmem: Print gfp flags in human readable string")
>> Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@...wei.com>
>> ---
>> v1 -> v2:
>>  - add "Fixes:" message
> 
> No need for that, I did it already, just next time look for when the
> problem you fixed was introduced, that way the various bots out there
> can pick this up for backports, i.e. your fix has a higher chance of
> being beneficial to more systems.
> 
Normally I will add "Fixes:", this time is forgot. thanks.

> - Arnaldo
>  
>>  tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
>> index 1e61e353f579..9661671cc26e 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
>> @@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ static char *compact_gfp_flags(char *gfp_flags)
>>  			new = realloc(new_flags, len + strlen(cpt) + 2);
>>  			if (new == NULL) {
>>  				free(new_flags);
>> +				free(orig_flags);
>>  				return NULL;
>>  			}
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.7.4.3
>